
Two Enemies of the Enlightenment: 3 – Joseph de Maistre
Isaiah Berlin
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What Is the Source of Authority?
Temesto says that the source of authority must be dark, impenetrable and uncriticisable. The sect la sect uinedor jame is the sect which made the french revolution. Jacobins, socialists, liberals, scientists, protestants, jansenists, perfectibilions, jews, freemasons, atheists, freethinkers. If they are not put down, we are lost. And these people call authority into question. All society re rests upon the curbing of reason. Because if we don't curb reason, reason will destroy us.
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